A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

The first tower block at Clune Park, an abandoned estate in Port Glasgow known as 'Britain’s Chernobyl', has been demolished. The site, empty since the 1990s, includes 430 derelict flats, a church, ...